After Josh’s death on Jat the age of 88, Jahan found a scrapbook and turned the pages to find something for the first time. Jahan discovered the first time his dad had been recognized by a U.S. Jahan would later become CSU’s athletic director and now serves as an administrator at the university. Several years later, when CSU brought back its athletic program, Culbreath’s son Jahan was brought on as the track & field coach. Another of his standouts was Carolin Sterling, the first woman to win five NAIA indoor event titles in amassing a total of 12 with her outdoor exploits.Ĭulbreath left CSU in the summer of 1996 – when the school shuttered its entire athletic program for financial reasons – for the athletic director position at Morehouse College. Culbreath and the CSU track & field teams were later honored by President Clinton in the White House Rose Garden in June 1994.įour of his athletes competed in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, led by Deon Hemmings, who won the 400-meter hurdles in becoming the first Jamaican woman to win an Olympic gold medal. The Marauders nearly pulled it off again in 1994 when they won two of the four national titles and finished runner-up twice (men won the indoor crown and finished second outdoors women took runner-up honors indoors and won the outdoor title). The zenith of the Culbreath era at CSU came in 1993, when the Marauders unprecedentedly swept the men’s and women’s team titles at both the NAIA Indoor and Outdoor Championships. His women won four consecutive NAIA outdoor titles from 1991 to 1994. In just eight years on the job, Culbreath led the Marauders to otherworldly heights: a total of ten NAIA track & field teams titles and eight other runner-up finishes and his athletes won a total of 91 event titles. I know this is football country, but I think we can build a nice little track empire here.” “But they’ve got me here and the word is out that Central State is beginning to build in track again. “That was in Dayton in 1953 when I won my first AAU national championship in a meet at Welcome Stadium.” “They had to do quite a bit of talking to get me to come here because I had only been in Ohio one other time in my life,” Culbreath explained in 1989 to Dave Long of the Dayton Daily News. The Marauders hadn’t seen glory days in track & field since the 1960s with the likes of Martin McGrady (world record setter in the 600 yards) and long jumper Clifton Mayfield (an NCAA champion). A native of the Philadelphia suburb of Norristown, Culbreath was being courted in the late 1980s by two Philadelphia natives – Central State University President Arthur Thomas and Athletic Director Billy Joe – hoping to lure Culbreath to Wilberforce, Ohio. Eisenhower, 1959) and another for his coaching accomplishments (Bill Clinton, 1994), which have now landed him in the USTFCCCA Coaches Hall of Fame.Ĭulbreath’s first and only coaching position didn’t come about easily. Josh Culbreath was – once for his athletic career (Dwight D. How many people have been recognized by two sitting U.S. Keep reading to learn more about the Class of 2022. Each of the honorees exemplifies the qualities of dedication to the sport, leadership and passion for their profession and serves as an inspiration to coaches everywhere. Started in 1995, the USTFCCCA Coaches Hall of Fame exists to recognize coaches who have brought great distinction to themselves, to their institutions and to the sports of cross country and track & field. These six coaches will be honored at the 2022 USTFCCCA Coaches Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Presented by REKORTAN on Tuesday, December 13, at the USTFCCCA Convention, held at the Gaylord Rockies Resort Hotel and Convention Center outside of Denver, Colorado. QUICK LINK: USTFCCCA Coaches Hall of Fame History Josh Culbreath, Greg Kraft, Halston Taylor, Art Venegas, Mark Wetmore and Sue Williams will all be enshrined in the USTFCCCA Coaches Hall of Fame, for not only their historic and incredible accomplishments as cross country and/or track & field coaches, but also the long-lasting impact their contributions have had – and will continue to have – on the sports they coached. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) is privileged to announce the six coaches who will be inducted into the USTFCCCA Coaches Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2022! USTFCCCA Coaches Hall of Fame Class of 2022 Announced
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